What is your desktop power usage while browsing these forums?

[bgt]

Peaking at 441W running Heaven continuously at 5.0/1.45V.

Is this GPU only? Because then my Valley benchmark is 370W peak powerdraw=GPU@1250/1250, 465W @1300/1500 GPU speed!! Furmark1.05.....530W@1300/1500!! No Prime95.
Settings 1080P on a fullscreen 1920x1200 monitor. Setting Valley:Extreme HD, Furmark: 1920x1200
Now with stock speed GPU 930/1250:
Valley 260W
Furmark 290W

Try Furmark 1.05+ Prime95, you'll get a higher powerdraw for sure. Valley is too light.
BTW: Furmark is the ultimate test for your whole system +a good CPU loader. Run that for an hour to see if it works(nowhere nearing 70C), then you have a truly balanced system(IMO).
In winter....perfect

 

[jaqie]

I just tested my system again, I don't know what has changed, but I am now ~130w active idle.

The prime95 max heat mode plus furmark maximum burn in mode makes my system pull ~390w from the wall, which is higher than before too...

very puzzling! I don't think my power supply could have degraded that much in two years of use, especially since it is one of the very high quality ones and the wattage pattern doesn't seem to indicate the power supply losses are the problem...

 

[OVerLoRDI]

We should run a contest - Who can pull the most watts at the wall with a single computer configured for 24x7 operation? (no suicide OC's just to rank higher )

I can get mine up to 1100 watts, furmark on my 7970s @ 1225mhz. PSU kicks off though

If I had Dual PSUs, I could probably get higher.

Bitcoining at that level gets me roughly 850 watt power draw continuous and lots of toasty heat coming off my radiators.

 

[Elfear]

I mine bitcoins while browsing so mine is ~640W from the wall.

 

[Idontcare]

Is bitcoin mining profitable at those power consumption levels?

 

[Zap]

• i7-3770k (stock, but mobo runs it @3.9GHz all cores)
• mobo - ASUS P8 Z77-V LK
• ram - 4x4GB DDR3-1866 GSkill 1.5V
• video - HD4000 (iGPU, stock)
• SSD - Samsung 840 250MB
• PSU - Corsair CX430 (80plus bronze)
• fans - 3x120mm Cougar PWM + 1x140mm LEPA PWM

^ this nets me ~43W at the wall while doing "desktop" work.

You can probably drop another 5-10W just by unhooking all the fans. Not overclocked and "desktop" work? Don't need the airflow.

 

[Ayah]

240W including 2 U2412m's.

Gotta love the apartment warming qualities of a 4.2GHz i7 920.

 

[John Tauwhare]

Is this GPU only? Because then my Valley benchmark is 370W peak powerdraw=GPU@1250/1250, 465W @1300/1500 GPU speed!! Furmark1.05.....530W@1300/1500!! No Prime95.
Settings 1080P on a fullscreen 1920x1200 monitor. Setting Valley:Extreme HD, Furmark: 1920x1200
Now with stock speed GPU 930/1250:
Valley 260W
Furmark 290W

Try Furmark 1.05+ Prime95, you'll get a higher powerdraw for sure. Valley is too light.
BTW: Furmark is the ultimate test for your whole system +a good CPU loader. Run that for an hour to see if it works(nowhere nearing 70C), then you have a truly balanced system(IMO).
In winter....perfect

Ok, just for the hell of it. Installed and tried Furmark 1.10.05 and Prime95 with the CPU at 4.8GHz/1.36V. GPUs hit 72C/76C and CPU 65C. Gave it 10 minutes. 565W. I could increase the OC, but it's a 5 year old chinese PSU.

 

[AtenRa]

I made a small mini-itx server for a friend yesterday with Intel DH77DF mini-itx motherboard paired with Core i5 3470, 2x 4GB DDDR-1333MHz Kingston, Samsung 840 120GB SSD, an external USB DVD-RW and Win 8 Pro. For the case I used the CoolerMaster Elite 100 mini-itx which has a 150W PSU.


I have measured 22W at idle and 25W on Browsing/using some apps. I have to say that is way too low and I wasn’t expecting that. Thumbs up

 

[bgt]

1 of my PC's with a i7+7950@1250/1250 just tripped playing TR with ultimate settings, 4xSAA en 1920x1200 screen. It switched off completely. I was seeing bursts of power usage being 350->400Watts when LC was jumping and grabbing a rock. PSU used for this test was the BQ F1 500W Gold. Written on the PSU is: 12Vline=462W total.
It looked very nice BTW, astonishing graphics
Idle power = 50W

BTW comparing the FX with the i7, when playing TR with ultimate resolutions(TressFX,SAA on), does not make a noticable difference in power usage or gameplay.

 

[Idontcare]

I made a small mini-itx server for a friend yesterday with Intel DH77DF mini-itx motherboard paired with Core i5 3470, 2x 4GB DDDR-1333MHz Kingston, Samsung 840 120GB SSD, an external USB DVD-RW and Win 8 Pro. For the case I used the CoolerMaster Elite 100 mini-itx which has a 150W PSU.


I have measured 22W at idle and 25W on Browsing/using some apps. I have to say that is way too low and I wasn’t expecting that. Thumbs up

Wow, that is really nice. That is laptop territory

 

[Haserath]

Windows Vista

Performance mode :142W

Power saver: 138W

Ubuntu 12.04: 138W

Is anybody able to test Windows 7 v 8 for power difference?

 

[lakedude]

50 to 60 watts after the page loads.

80 or 90 watts if a new page is opened but it settles back down after a few seconds.

i7-3770s, hd7850, 1 ssd, 1 storage drive, 1 optical.

150 watts while running BOINC and surfing...

EDIT:

177 watts with the GPU based POEM running in addition to Rosetta and SiMap (all on BOINC). POEM was down the other day.

I think the system is pretty incredible really. It didn't cost all that much to buy, it doesn't take much to run and it is in the ball park for the most powerful system I've ever owned. Gone are the days I'd spend $500 plus for a video card and gone are the days of needing bigger and bigger power supplies. Technology is awesome!

 

[bigboxes]

My CyberPower widget says it's at 252 watts (main rig, monitor, amplified speakers and desk lamp). Subtract ~100w for the monitor. File server UPS says that it's drawing 108 watts (file server, cable modem, router and switch).

 

[Deders]

84 at stock speeds and 108 when overclocked to 3800

 

[bgt]

I made a small mini-itx server for a friend yesterday with Intel DH77DF mini-itx motherboard paired with Core i5 3470, 2x 4GB DDDR-1333MHz Kingston, Samsung 840 120GB SSD, an external USB DVD-RW and Win 8 Pro. For the case I used the CoolerMaster Elite 100 mini-itx which has a 150W PSU.I have measured 22W at idle and 25W on Browsing/using some apps. I have to say that is way too low and I wasn’t expecting that. Thumbs up

Probably with an adapter(12V) PSU. They tend to use a lot less at idle then the ATX power supplies(which have a lot of power rails). My 65W(for my LC-power ITX cases) adapters also use very low idle power. My HTPC = 25W@idle.

 

[Idontcare]

Windows Vista

Performance mode :142W

Power saver: 138W

Ubuntu 12.04: 138W

Is anybody able to test Windows 7 v 8 for power difference?

I should have specified that the system referenced in my OP is Win8.

I will also dawn my flamesuit and risk being doused in vile feedback by stating I absolutely love, just love, Windows 8 Pro (x64) over my Windows 7 Ultimate (x64). Could not be more pleased with Win8 (I expect to be repeatedly told I am a 'tard now )

I also tested the power change with same hardware on a Win7 Ult x64 upgrade to Win8 Pro x64, my idle power went down about 10W (from ~104W to ~94W) and my active-idle power also went down by a similar amount (~134W to ~124W).

That was for a QX9500 on a Gigabyte DS3L, Vertex2 120GB, 4x2GB DDR2-800, and an AMD X1500 fanless vid card (everything at stock). Ancient hardware. So my guess is Win8 is better at getting the hardware to sleep than Win7 was or did. (auto-driver installs for hardware under both OSes)

But yeah, me loves my Win8 boxes over my Win7, so shoot me

 

[Zap]

People hate on Win8 because they hate change, and the learning curve that comes along with change.

 

[Ajay]

People hate on Win8 because they hate change, and the learning curve that comes along with change.

Then again, some of us who've evaluated Win8 just don't like it as a desktop OS. I'm curious to see what Blue brings. Generalizations normally fail; yes, I get the irony

 

[Vic Vega]

People hate on Win8 because they hate change, and the learning curve that comes along with change.

No, it has nothing to do with that for me.

 

[jaqie]

People hate on Win8 because they hate change, and the learning curve that comes along with change.

For me it has to do nothing with that, I can't stand the forced online bit about it - nomatter if there was a way around it or not, it said it required to be online and to be associated with a live account and email address just for me to log into my computer. That is completely unacceptable to me in every way. Just as unacceptable to me is how MS is trying to bully around game/software developers in windows 8. I didn't like what they did with 7 with the registration for drivers, but this is way over the line to me.

 

[ggeros]

At the wall it has to be over 120W for me. Everything is plugged into a series of power strips... :whiste:

But the tower alone averages around 60W if my AV isn't scanning something

 

[Idontcare]

For me it has to do nothing with that, I can't stand the forced online bit about it - nomatter if there was a way around it or not, it said it required to be online and to be associated with a live account and email address just for me to log into my computer.

My Win8 doesn't require any of that. I don't have to be connected to the internet to login or otherwise use my Win8 box. Nor is associated with a live account (I don't even have one). And no email address has ever been input to the machine, I don't use it to check email and I never registered and email address with the system.

Are you sure you have Win8 issues there? Sounds like you have some kind of application standing between you and Win8 that is inhibiting your use of the box. If my Win8 box did that crap I'd be pissed too, thankfully it doen't do any of that.

 

[jaqie]

that was my experience when I tried the windows 8 preview on my computer.

 

[2is]

I've done a few Win8 installations and every single one required an email address to complete the setup/sign-in procedure.

Now whether or not it required an active internet connector or even if that email address had to be a valid one I don't know.